Bias of Priene Quotes
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Seek to please all the citizens, even though Your house may be in an ungracious city. For such a course will favour win from all: But haughty manners oft produce destruction.
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Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.
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Great strength of body is the gift of nature; But to be able to advise whate'er Is most expedient for one's country's good, Is the peculiar work of sense and wisdom.
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Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
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Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.
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Hear much; speak little.
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It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
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Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
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Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.
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The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
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Speak of the Gods as they are.
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Love prudence.
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He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
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Great riches come to many men by chance.
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Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.
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Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.
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Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.
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Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.